From a recent CBS/NYT poll:
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HEALTH INSURANCE: PRIVATE ENTERPRISE VS. GOVERNMENT? |
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CBS/NYT Now |
CBS/NYT 1/1979 |
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Private enterprise |
32% |
48% |
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Government – all problems |
49 |
28 |
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Government – emergencies |
10 |
12 |
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Don’t know |
9 |
12 |
Are Democrats listening? This represents a 37% swing in opinion on an item that Americans routinely put at the top of the list of priorities for the government to fix. National health insurance has multiple faces, so it is a mistake to think that this question indicates support for any one idea — but it is pretty safe to say that people no longer think that private insurance is doing what it should.
Another interesting item from this poll:
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SHOULD MARIJUANA USE BE LEGALIZED? |
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CBS/NYT Now |
CBS/NYT 1/1979 |
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Yes |
41% |
27% |
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No |
52% |
69% |
For these results:
There is a huge generation gap on this issue. More adults under 45 (49%) approve of legalizing marijuana use than oppose (45%), while just 31% of adults over age 45 approve of it; six in 10 are opposed.
Still not a majority, but there is a lot of movement to it.
(Sorry about the ugly tables, it was the best I could do with my extremely limited HTML skillset.)